Archive for March, 2011

Here it is 7 days and no fishing. Normally this time of year I'm sorting out tackle for the summer, getting reels repaired and serviced. I also re-spool my reels with new line ready for the off. Clean and put new batteries in the ATT alarms.
My tench fishing will be on Horseshoe Lake at Lechlade. The water does through up →

The weather was consistent, warm 14c but with bright conditions. I had arranged to meet Bob Gill and Paddy for a last bash on the river. I was only fishing the last few hrs of the day.
Now it's unusual for these two Guy's to be fishing for chub as they are barbel fanatics, but with the bright weather and low →

Mar 16, 2011 | Uncategorized | Comments Off on 14th March last day on the river for a while

Had to leave the house today. Me and the wife are not speaking again! She asked last night what was on TV, I said the same as last week, she said what do you mean, I said "dust".
I pulled into the Red Lion car park in Lacock at 4pm for a 2hr go with the float rod.
I had met Kevin →

The weather had been mild since the frost of Tuesday morning, I thought that the tench might just start moving on the lakes at Great Somerford, and perhaps the perch would be big and fat ready to spawn. I had some terrible maggots that I needed to use before they all turned. It wasn't going to be a serious session →

The weather was warm at about 12c which was fine for the end of the season. The river still low and clear which still suited the float fishing for chub approach. The wind from the previous day had calmed down a little. I arrived at about 1pm and settled in a swim on a large bend where there is a →

Having a few of pints of maggots remaining from my trip to the Stour I decided to target an area of the Bristol Avon where there are some heafty chub. Although these are not comparable with the Stour chub in size they are never the less as good in terms of river size and fighting ability. I was only going to fish →

I was up at 4am having packed the car with all the gear the previous night. I was down to Throop to see if I could catch a few chub before the season end. There had been a frost during the night and as I headed down through the roads of Wiltshire and Hampshire the dial on the car showed →

This was going to be my first visit from my holiday in Cape verde so I was really looking forward to fishing for the roach again. The forecast was for the warm weather to disappear and cold cloudy days to prevail, with a chilly N/E wind.
Setting of from home at 5.30am I was soon parking up in the car park →